Re: Bogus path in postmaster.opts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Bogus path in postmaster.opts
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Msg-id 8854.1137703588@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Bogus path in postmaster.opts  (Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>)
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Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> There is another possible answer, and it's something I've been
>> meaning to bring up for awhile.  Is there a good reason why
>> postmaster is a symlink to postgres, rather than a hard link?

> I don't know of one.  Something I have thought of during the recent 
> options reorganization is that we could do away with the 
> postmaster/postgres dichotomy altogether.  Just call the thing 
> postmaster and give it a --single-user-mode option.

No strong objection here, though combining the two manpages is likely
to be a mess :-(
        regards, tom lane


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